Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Abstracts -- A New Look at Linguistic Split in Romance -- Fossilization in French Syntax -- Latin Origin of Romance Rules -- Tracing the Source of a Lexical Gap -- Syntactico-Semantic Reconstruction in Romance -- Diphthongization, Monophthongization, Metaphony Revisited -- The Etymologist as a Transformationalist -- Latin Vocalic Quantity to Quality: A Pseudo-Problem? -- Contextual Change and Historical Change: The Translator as Time Machine -- The Situational Motivation of Syntax and the Syntactic Motivation of Polysemy and Semantic Change: Spanish-Italian Bravo, etc. -- The Development of the Clitics in Hispano-Romance -- Semantic Change or Lexical Change? -- Some Diachronic Deletion Processes and Their Synchronic Consequences in French -- The Verbal System of French -- Hýsteron Próteron and the Structure of Discourse -- That Erudite Enigma Revisited.